Zustand: Very Good. 2nd. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Verlag: New York: Jerry Leff Associates Inc., (1994). (1994)., 1994
Anbieter: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, USA
Zustand: Very good. - Quarto, 12 inches high by 9-7/8 inches wide. Spiral-bound softcover. Bound in stiff purple wraps decorated with the firm's name in gilt and blind and with a round white paper title label printed in black on the front cover. A purple tag embossed in gilt is attached with black cotton to the top copper spiral ring. The corners are lightly creased. 34 leaves, each printed on one side only, including a list of artists printed as a title page on creamy fine speckled paper and 33 full-page color illustrations and designs by graphic artists and illustrators printed on glossy stock. An additional 5 full-page color plates are housed in a pocket at the rear with Jeffrey Leff's business card housed in a smaller pocket. There is a minor crease to the top corners of the 5 plates housed in the pocket. Very good. RARE.The artists represented in this work are Joe Fleming, Fred Hilliard, Francis Livingston, Rob Roth, Michele Manning, Neil Brennan, Rik Olson, Sue Rother, Charles Gehm, Denise Crawford, Terry Hoff, Brian Callanan, Alan Mazzetti, Richard High, Leonard Morgan, Ron Broda, Kelly Maddox, Franco Accornero, Mary Thelen, Lingta Kung, Alex Boies, and John Sayles, all of whom are listed on the first page. Works by Gwen Connelly, HB Lewis, and Lewis Pippo are included within the pocket at the rear. These artists were not listed at the front. Another print, this one printed on heavy stock, is unidentified. The image beautifully depicts a black man in a tan jacket, standing in the light from a window in a bare loft, gently gesturing to a cat who lies at his feet.
Verlag: Toronto Star Limited, Toronto, 1958
Erstausgabe
Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Fair. Paginton, George; (illustrator). First Edition. 52 pages. Features: Cover photo of sulphur storage in B.C.'s Peace River Country; The Day the Yanks Flew Through Hell - treetop bombing of Romania's Ploesti oil refineries by 163 giant B-24 Liberators on August 1, 1943 - article with photos and illustration; Nice colour photo full-page ad for Ogilvie Macaroon Mixes; The 500 Children I Short-Changed - Fred Sloman taught school in Northern Ontario between Capreol and Foleyet for 40 years but feels there were many children he could have helped more than the many he did - article by him, with photos; Nice full-page ad for Lux soap featuring Mitzi Gaynor; Why Film Stars Get Into James - photos of Clark Gable, Mickey Rooney and Lana Turner; My MVD Man Can Lick Your MVD Man - Part 2, by Art Buchwald who recounts his recent three weeks behind the Iron Curtain - with photos; How Much Are You Worth To Your Widow? - Lloyd Lockhart examines Death Duties; Hollywood's Secret of Weight Control, by Jean Manning - with flattering photos of Alexis Smith, Ann Miller and Mrs. James Mason; Patterson's Just Too Good - Tex Coulter Writes of his former Montreal Alouettes star teammate Hal Patterson - with photo and illustration; Science Explodes Some Myths About Your Hair, by John E. Gibson; Nice colour full-page ad for Noxzema skin cream; Walter Murdoch - a man of many hassles; Noise Can Change Your Life - man is on the verge of becoming submerged in a sea of intolerable self-made sound; The Spanish Mick - fiction; The Wolf is Here to Stay! - a northern B.C. article with photos including a shot of Sylvia Woywitka with a huge wolf fur; Can We Justify Spending Millions in the Arctic? - photo illustrated article examines the development of infrastructure in the north; The High Places - Fiction; Debbie Reynolds in Lustre-Creme Shampoo ad; Let Teenagers Run Their Own Parties; Crossword; Rural Route Cartoon by Walter Ball; Food Article by Marjorie Elwood with colour photo of judges Denyse Pesant, Laura Pepper, Helen McKercher, and author; Colour photo full-page ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee spaghetti and meat balls; Nice colour full-page ad for Red Rose tea. Small piece missing from back cover. Above-average soiling and wear. A worthy vintage copy with lots of interesting content and photos.